In 1969, the Apollo Eleven astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon -- splashed down safely in the Pacific.

In 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

In 1975, an Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.

In 1991, Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer died in Miami at age 87.

In 2002, nine coal miners were trapped in a flooded mine in western Pennsylvania; the story ended happily three days later with the rescue of all nine.

Ten years ago: Two bombs blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a commuter train near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 64 civilians and wounding more than 400.

Five years ago: A Chinese court sentenced two U-S residents to ten years in prison on charges of spying for Taiwan. (China released Gao Zhan (gow jan) and Qin Guangguang (chihn gwahng-gwahng) two days later.)

One year ago: Lance Armstrong closed out his cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory. Sir Richard Doll, the British scientist who first established a link between smoking and lung cancer, died in Oxford, England, at age 92.